“Shut up!”, he explained

Piers Morgan, who used to judge a reality show, is now judging a non-reality show. Here, he debates the Second Amendment Foundation‘s Alan Gottlieb. He uses all of the classic anti-gun tactics:

proof by vigorous assertion
lies, gets caught lying, repeats the lie
talking over his opponent
Gets question answered, asks again only with more dickery and shut up!

Anyway, the correct answer to why do you need an AR-15? is because fuck you. Or, the more politically correct version because I can. You see, Piers, you don’t get a say in what I own or what I do. End of story.

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Alan never called Pierce on his first falsehood. At the very beginning, Alan explained that the AR usually shoots a .22 caliber round that is less powerful than most hunting rifles and Pierce said, “That’s just not true in either of these cases and you know it.”

He should have rubbed Morgan’s nose in that one right then and there. Considering the rest of the interview was going to be “reasoned discourse,” showing Morgan to be that horribly ignorant of the subject at hand would have been a good way to try to take momentum early on.

This brings to mind a jewel that Tam posted a while back and that I found to be worth saving.

“Listening to media personalities and politicians pontificating on firearms and firearms laws is like listening to eighth graders pontificate on sex.
They sure don’t let lack of any first hand knowledge dampen their enthusiastically-held opinions.”